Record-cleaner for sound-reproducing machines.



s. N. BLACKMAN. I RECORD (:LEANER FOR SOUND REPBODUCING MACHINES.

[APPLICATION man mm 15. um.

Patented NW 22 MW.

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Application filed June "all whom a my concern:

known that l, dosnrn' hlnwoomu Bnecirlmen citizen. of the United States, residing" the lborongh of Manhattan, city,

York, here inldecord Qleeners for Sound ldenroducin 4::

of which the following is e speci- 'lviy invention relates to, record cleaners proper point and with the proper amount Stetes patent to Henry A. Place, dated Elepteniberfi, 1W6, No. $811,987, and in which e bruslcchold ng arm is fixed to en attaching clump l opposite spring lingers to clasp the sound box, sound tube or member which movesover the record; so that the cleaner can quickly attached to or deteched the movable member, and can be adjusted thereon so as to beerut the or pressure on the record in front of the following styles I In Letters Patent No. 865,674., issued to me September 10, 1907, l have described a specific improvement on said generic invention in which the spring fingered reproducer clasp is formed integrally with the brush holding clamp and arm. The specific examples of the invention shown in the said Place patent are also made in this Way.

The disadvantaged this specific coi'istruction is that Whereas the materiel of the brusl' -holdii'lg clump should be soft and pliable properly to bind the brush bristles when set thereor and the reproducer clue} should be of elastic material so as properly to grip the reproducer, the integral construction of the brush clamp and reproducer clasp does not permit such divergent con-- struction.

1- nresent s e-chi improvement on the said Plece inventiel'i therefore, consists of e pliable b 'ush e em}? permanently attached to an elost c Illill tifiif clasp, substantially herei otter oescriced and claimed.

Specification liletters li etcnt.

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tion. which like parts are designated by the same numbers in all the limres.

F gure i. represents L'GCJI'G cleaner embodying my present invention, ettuched to the sound be of on ordinary Victor talking machine igs. f2, 3, 4i and 5 are enlarged detail views showing the novel construction oi? the said record cleaner v ln null-ring the record cleaner tons illustrated, I make the reproduce]? clasp of a piece o1? resil'ent jlnetel, as best shown in 5, bent to form the base 6 which beers crosswise against the circumferential face of the sound box, spring lingers '3 on the opposi'te ends of said base to bearelesticnlly ,ugeinst the opposite sides the rim of the sound box, and folds 8 bent inward from opposite sides of the base 6, over the foo-e opposite the spring iii'igers 7.

The brush-holding clamp 9 and u'rin 10, as best shown in Fig. 4, I make of a single piece of pliable Hl 5ill,-OIl6 side of the brush clump 9 having an integral extension bent downward nngularly to form the brushholding arm 10, the side of which at the end has an integral extension which is folded laterally orer the arm to form a, tongue The brush-holding clamp end urrn thus formed permanently attached to the reprodncer clasp by introducing the pliable tongue fl; lietween the resilient base 6 and resilient fields 5% oi the rcproducer clasp, and binding the tongue 12 securely therebetween bypressing the pliable brush tongue 12 and pliable brush arm 10 tightly together, as

with a slot to secure the sound box screw, end is z'ttnched to the sound box as shown in F 1, and described in my said prior Patent No. 865$"? 41.

l calm as my imention:

l. A record cleaning uttnclnncnt consistol u brush clump having :1 folded e3:- tension and o reproducer clasp, having opposite spring lingers and a folded extension bound in the folded extension of the brush cl 2. A record cleaning attachment; cm, sisting of abrush clamp formed with an arm ing of a brush claimp anelextension of non-v lmving a tongue folded over it, and a re- 10 resilient material, i1 reproducer clasp and producer clasp having lateral extensions of extension of resilient material, the resilient its base folded over the base and bound be- 5 extension of the reproducer clasp being tween thearm and tongue of the brush bound between folds of the non-resilient exclamp.

tension of thebrush clamp.

3. A record cleaning attachment consist- JOSEPH N EWCOMB BLAOKMAN 

